This article is the third section of “The hard argument against LLMs being AGI” essay series. In previous section we used the idea of algorithmic fingerprint to demonstrate and explain how Few-Shot Learning LLMs actually work. Then we established that “cognition” of LLMs is a delusion from misunderstanding how Few-Shot…

This article is the second section of of “The hard argument against LLMs being AGI” essay series. In previous section we went through some basic ideas of how computer science functions from the perspective of philosophy of science. Then we elaborated on the limits of computational systems and Turing Machines…

This article is the first section of “The hard argument against LLMs being AGI” essay series. When people argue that LLMs are not AGIs, we often get blamed that we are just anthropomorphising AGI in order to exclude any modern LLM or machine learning method from reaching that. As if…

A few weeks ago, Microsoft published this, perhaps slightly extravagant, paper “Sparks of Artificial General AI.” Huge title, but when you read the paper, especially the metrics section, you notice that they just used an IQ-test-like system from 1994 to define “Hey, this is AGI!” which completely ignores the state-of-the-art…

I think that social systems change is a popular thing and in high demand now, because of the Ethical problems of Nudging. In practice, today in Western civilization we now have an agreement that we consider existentialism as a valid source of personal identity and meaning for life: we all…

I started to develop a World of Warcraft story generator for the NaNoWriMo AI competition. I plan to publish a kind of dev diary of the project. This is the update vol. 1: Later this week I scraped all the World of Warcraft short stories Blizzard publishes on their website…

Melvin Vopson published a paper about a theory that attributes dark matter as information. As a kind of bit philosophical person I have been playing with this kind of thought experiment. (Later I discovered this was also published, which is highly relevant: https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clues-come-from-a-century-old-approach-to-math-20200407) If all particles with mass are nodes…

This blog post was a response for Brendan Graham’s Dempsey’s really good article about what is political metamodernism. I think he made one mistake though: The grand narratives are not coming back. What metamodernism does resolve is the problem of Cartesian Grammar! …

Common good creates safety in our struggle for survival within the forces of nature. When our survival was not at stakes due to the nature, it has many times been at stakes due to other human beings. …